Sentences with phrase «running for political office for»

Kudlow has played with the idea of running for political office for years.

Democrat Erin Cole does not consider herself a political person, but has been on a career track to run for political office for quite some time.

Not exact matches

The question really comes down to how much attention should be given to new technologies when a candidate is running for a political office as important as POTUS.

While Sacca has been vocal about his political views, he doesn't have any plans to run for office.

She is the only first lady to have ever run successfully for political office, becoming the first female senator from New York in 2001.

«The issue of me running for political office frequently comes up because I am constantly touring around, giving speeches and raising money for the party,» he said in a statement.

But as soon as I got to college, I realized I had very important dreams and ambitions and I turned down a marriage proposal to a man who has his own successful law firm and is running for political office.

Demand in Argentina spiked in June when former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, whose policies put the country into a recession, announced that she was running again for political office.

Clark was a former Liberal, having worked as a staffer at the Legislature during Laurence Decore «s time as party leader (Clark's father, Gilbert Clark, was 823 votes away from ending Ralph Klein «s political career when the former mayor first ran for provincial office in Calgary - Elbow in 1989).

Even Sun News caricature Ezra Levant once attempted to run for political office.

Meanwhile on a senisble note, I look forwrd to the day, as happened with the founding fathers, that you can run for a political office without believing in myths.

Accepting at face value the assertion that Rick Perry has a Divine calling to run for the Republican nomination, we are lead to the question of whether it was a call to Mr. Perry to become the nominee or whether it was, instead, a call to Mr. Perry to teach a lesson about how people should not take the Name in vain in order to obtain political office.

If it held true to the Bible (which they don't), they would excommunicate any of their members who ran for political office.

We always lament that we can not get the nations best and brightest to run for political office... surely there are Americans more qualified than Obama, more intelligent than GW Bush.

especially when they wear their religion in public while running for political office.

While running for office, Trump either scrambled political categories (on issues such as health care), or took on the bipartisan consensus (on issues such as trade).

A friend is encouraging pastors to run for political office.

Just ask any Republican candidate about the separation of church and state... or try to run for a political office as an atheist.

As Wolterstorff recognizes, «the fact that Jesus never ran for political office does not become an objection to running for political office, any more than the fact that he never heard a piano concerto becomes an objection to listening to piano concertos.

With stunning consistency, virtually every indicator of civic engagement currently available shows the same pattern of increase followed by stagnation and decline — newspaper reading; TV news watching; attending political meetings; petition signing; running for public office; attending public meetings; serving as an officer or committee member in any local clubs or organizations; writing letters to the editor; participating in local meetings of national organizations; attending religious services; socializing informally with friends, relatives or neighbors; attending club meetings; joining unions; entertaining friends at home; participating in picnics; eating the evening meal with the whole family; going out to bars, nightclubs, discos or taverns; playing cards; sending greeting cards; attending parties; playing sports; donating money as a percentage of income; working on community projects; giving blood.

Why do fundiot nutters have this bizarre need to apply a religious means test for folks running for political office?

So, President Obama's increase in giving coincident with his running for higher office is to be spun as a crass political move, but Santorum's failure to increase his giving while he runs for higher office is be lauded, because when caught he expresses that he needs to «do better», and thus «takes it seriously».

While none of Jesus Christ's 1st century Christian leaders ever involved themselves in politics to the point that they ran for public office, after they all died out those men Jesus said would sneak into the church did sneak in and did get involved with political leaders and in just a couple of centuries the Holy Roman Empire was the old Roman Empire whitewashed to appear to be something of God's and both the church and the State being led by the very same man, Pontifex Maximus who had his own wife killed for proving that his trinity doctrine was horsepucky.

I don't know why anybody runs for political office who has skeletons in the closet.

Can you imagine how they diminished the God they claim to follow, by making Him appear so shallow, that he would be more interested in Republicans running for political office, while His children all over the world are dying, starving and begging for His help.

If he wants to be a politician then he shoud run for office and stop using the pulpit to promote his political agenda.

He did not have to get approval from the Church to run for any political office.

BTW I don't know what Reggie Miller is into that he was «kissed harder then that» Maybe he should run for political office.

Josh is hoping to run for political office someday, which could mean turning his family's hateful views into law, so I will sit back and cackle that he has a little scandal tarnishing his previously squeaky - clean reputation.

Giuliani has never run for office before, but he does come from a political family.

Rev. Franklin Graham was in Albany, saying: «I want to urge Christians to go the polls and vote, and I want to encourage Christians to also run for political office.»

«If Rudy (the younger) decides to do this — and it's a question not if he runs for political office, but when — a lot of Rudy (the elder) supporters will come out.

For aficionados of political theatre, Theo Barclay's run - through of great resignations is a surefire box office smash.

As Maggie Haberman reports, de Blasio has had discussions in recent weeks with Google on the heels of his successful effort to get Goldman Sachs to agree not to spend on political ads in this election cycle — even though a recent US Supreme Court decision allows corporations to drop unlimited amounts of cash to try to elect of defeat candidates running for federal office.

Trump, who made a fortune in real estate before running for political office, has decided to donate his first - quarter salary of $ 78,333 to the National Park Service, the White House announced.

The data series in which we found serious discontinuities or complete breaks are not trivial or obscure, but are (or should be) of major importance to the evaluation of government of any political stripe, such as total public sector capital investment, local government spending (on which the Office for Budget Responsibility and the government differ whether it is rising or falling), how much the government costs to run, and how much the civil service costs to employ.

«If Todd Kaminsky can't run for political office without neglecting his official legislative duties, how can we expect him to handle the myriad of issues facing Long Island as a State Senator?»

AND... we think I might be the only female political blogger to have run for office and won, in the country.

Donald Trump Jr. reportedly wants to run for political office, telling members of an elite gun club that he could set his sights on becoming governor of New York.

As the dust settles on the party's choice, the question remains of how, in practical terms — and how much, in political terms — the WFP endorsement will help Nixon, an actress and educational activist making her first run for political office.

When you are preparing to run for a political office as huge as the governors seat, you rise up prepared to answer hardball Q&A.

Indeed, the ability of a small clique in political party apparatuses to determine who runs for office, coupled with proportional representation systems that allow for the concentration of power in the hands of a few, has led to tight control of who gets elected.

Since the start of de Blasio's second term in January, his wife, Chirlane McCray, who once shied from the spotlight, has undertaken a political transformation, raising her visibility and profile — so much so that she is now contemplating running for office.

It was his first run for political office and his opponent was Democratic state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli, who had been appointed to the office three years prior.

Buffalo News Political Reporter Bob McCarthy says some politicians also used the event to position themselves for runs at key statewide offices.

Even though this is his first run for office, Mr. Bachmann has been participating in the American political process for ten years.

Former vice-president, Atiku Abubakar, has reacted to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)'s call, for debates among candidates running for political offices in 2019.

A recent poll of New York voters showed 45 percent thought he should run for office some day, but 48 percent said his political career was over.

Is it considered an oxymoron in this day and age to support a gay republican running for political office?

Turning again to his own future in politics, the governor added: «Running for office is a very personal decision,» and insisted his only political ambition is to run for re-election.